December 2010
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San Francisco Pushing Stringent Commercial...
From BOMA, the Building Owners and Managers Association:
“San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is considering legislation that goes further than state law to mandate energy performance benchmarking in commercial buildings. The ordinance will require all buildings more than 10,000–square feet to be benchmarked using EPA ENERGY STAR’s Portfolio Manager, and to have an energy audit within...
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Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) 101
Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) can make the things run by AC motors in your facility more energy efficient, if the motors need a variable output and you use mechanical means to vary that output.
So what are they?
AC motor drives control the speed, torque, direction and resulting horsepower of a motor. If you don’t need a constant output, then you can vary the fan speed inside the motor...
SmartWatt Central New York Offices: Commercial,...
I made a trip to SmartWatt’s Central New York offices a couple of weeks ago in Rochester and Syracuse. I wanted to meet our staff there, tour the facilities, see an audit in action and attend a proposal presentation.
This Rochester office primarily handles large commercial and industrial lighting retrofit projects in Central New York. My stay here was short, but I was able to see how...
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EPAct 2005, Section 179(d): Energy Tax Deduction
Thinking about a lighting retrofit for your commercial or industrial facility and wondering what tax incentives are available?
EPAct 2005, or the Energy and Policy Act of 2005, provides a tax deduction for qualifying US taxpayers who install energy efficient property that reduces annual energy and power consumption by 50%. The benefits of EPAct 2005 were extended by the Emergency Economic...